A stylus hovers over a screen featuring a physics diagram

Textbooks come alive with new, interactive AI tool

Nov. 1, 2024

ATLAS assistant professor, Ryo Suzuki, makes textbooks more interactive with AI-powered tools that turn diagrams into effective simulations for more personalized and immersive learning.

Mike Rivera talks to several guests in the Utility Research Lab

Brewing Sustainability: Michael Rivera powers up 3D printing with coffee grounds

Sept. 26, 2024

Carnegie Mellon University alumni profile details how our Utility Research Lab director employs sustainable materials in place of plastics in 3D printing and textile development.

Carson Bruns in a white lab coat working with tattoo equipment in his lab

Bruns receives Provost's Faculty Achievement Award

Sept. 20, 2024

ATLAS assistant professor, Carson Bruns, was among a group of five Ƶ Boulder pre-tenure faculty recognized for excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership and service. He was selected for his research on smart tattoos.

Laura Devendorf stands smiling in the Unstable Design Lab while holding a colorful woven form and showing it to guests

Devendorf bridges engineering and craft communities with new initiative

Aug. 13, 2024

The Unstable Design Lab director has embarked on the first phase of a years-long project to bring together engineering and craft communities to advance textile research across a range of scientific disciplines.

Ruhan Yang sits behind a table showing off paper circuits research at the conference

Colorado-based Computer Graphics Professionals Make Their Mark at SIGGRAPH 2024

Aug. 2, 2024

ATLAS community members, including professor Ellen Do and PhD student Ruhan Yang, presented at this year's conference in Denver.

Suibi Che-Chuan Weng receives his award certificate

Public-private partnership drives attention for ATLAS research in augmented and mixed reality

July 18, 2024

ACME Lab members built relationships with industry players through the Pervasive Personalized Intelligence (PPI) Center by collaborating on solutions to challenges in building Internet of Things systems. Three ATLAS PhD students took home awards from the PPI Center's Spring 2024 Advisory Board Meeting.

examples of multi-color biofibers

Wear it, then recycle: ATLAS Designers make dissolvable textiles from gelatin

June 17, 2024

In a new study, a team of ATLAS engineers and designers developed a DIY machine that spins textile fibers made of materials like sustainably sourced gelatin. The group’s “biofibers” feel a bit like flax fiber and dissolve in hot water in minutes to an hour.

Photo series of SCOBY growth with corresponding musical notes

Microbiology as meditation: Living Matter Lab explores “livingness” in time

April 8, 2024

The Living Matter Lab pursues a deeper understanding of alternative perspectives on temporality through a surprising medium: kombucha SCOBY.

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‘It is hijacking my brain’ – a team of experts found ways to help young people addicted to social media to cut the craving

Feb. 15, 2024

Many people have compared the addictive nature of social media to cigarettes. Checking your likes, they say, is the new smoke break. Others say the unease over social media is just the next round of moral panic about new technologies.

Ralphie sculpture in the snow

Grace Leslie and Joel Swanson selected as Faculty Fellows

Dec. 20, 2023

The Research & Innovation Office has announced the 2024 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, including assistant professor Grace Leslie and associate professor Joel Swanson along with 14 other faculty members from departments and research institutes across the campus.

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